Thanks to your support, my book is now a reality. I could not have completed this project without all of you behind me. Tomorrow, September 1, is the official launch day of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. The book is available now in paperback and kindle versions. You can purchase directly from the publisher here or from Amazon here. Understanding Mass Incarceration is a survey of the issue, one that covers mass incarceration from Nixon to Obama, from the school -to- prison-pipeline to supermax prisons to the War on Drugs. The book offers an accessible style while drawing on original research and making use of the voices of those directly impacted by imprisonment. Michelle Alexander has called it: "an excellent, much-needed introduction to the racial, political, and economic dimensions of mass incarceration, we well as a brilliant overview of the competing schools of thought regarding what must be done to end it." I hope you will buy it and find it useful whether you are an expert in the field or new to the issue.